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ongoing Paris Paralympics 2024, winning a bronze. Devi's video clip, showcasing her precision by the use just her right foot, jaw support, and shoulder movement, went viral. Her moves were aptly summed up by Erik Solheim, Norway's environment minister, who wrote on X: "This is beyond possible! Sheetal Devi is poetry in motion..." Devi is one of 84 Indian athletes at the Paralympics.

The European Union is trying to get a semblance of gender parity in its new executive Commission

Pope Francis arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia on Tuesday to kick off a four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific that will be the longest and farthest of the 87-year-old's papacy. The head of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics touched down in Jakarta for a three-day visit devoted to inter-religious ties, and will then travel to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore. The 12-day tour will test the pontiff's increasingly fragile health, but he is often energised by being among his flock and he emerged from the 13-hour flight smiling and waving.

Ottoman rule. He died there, in Missolonghi, of a fever on April 19th 1824, aged 36. The Greeks, who adored him, kept his lungs and larynx in an urn; the rest of Byron was returned to England, against his wishes.

Jenna Ortega is much awaited show on the OTT streaming platform along with "Squid Game" season 2. 'Wednesday', in fact, is in the list of Netflix's most-watched series of all time. Netflix's 'Wednesday' also bagged four Emmy Awards. Production for 'Wednesday' started on May and is likely to continue till November this year, as per a report on WhatsOnNetflix. 'Wednesday' season 2 on Netflix is likely to be released in September, 2025, as per the report. However, Netflix is yet to confirm any release date for 'Wednesday' season 2.

The latest chapter in a seemingly endless saga over the management of Italy’s lucrative beach concessions has set Italian beaches on fire this summer

Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people

Prosecutors in Italy have opened an investigation into culpable shipwreck and multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized during a storm off the coast of Sicily

JD Vance would go to St. Gertrude to meet the friar. It was a fitting place for the millennial aspiring politician, who was drawn to the Catholic Church's ancient ways. For years he had flirted with joining the church. Now he wanted to explore the desire in earnest. St. Gertrude Church was led by the Dominican Friars from the Province of St. Joseph, part of a religious order founded in 1216. Its sanctuary smelled of incense but felt modern, its concrete walls pierced with bright stained-glass rectangles in reds and blues.

Italian authorities have launched an investigation after two easyJet flight attendants were injured when their flight from Corfu to London’s Gatwick Airport was buffeted by turbulence earlier this week

heist to read a book about Greek mythology, a would-be Rome burglar wishes he had learned this lesson sooner. The 38-year-old robber entered a flat in the Prati neighbourhood of the city after scaling the balcony, but he was sidetracked by a book. He continued pouring over the anthology on the terrace after that. According to local media, the burglar stayed there for so long that the homeowner, 71, woke up and found him flipping through the pages. The thief attempted to flee by sliding down the same balcony. However, he was soon arrested after being obstructed by his neighbours. Also Read :How does the $40 million Bayesian yacht that sunk off Italian coast look from the inside? Here are details

Hulu is out with a new original Korean drama called “The Tyrant.” Rogue government scientists create a deadly virus to put South Korea on the same power level as the U.S. and other countries with nuclear arms. The four-part series premieres Wednesday. MTV’s long-running competition show “The Challenge” began as a spinoff of the “Real World” and “Road Rules,” and is still charging full steam ahead with season 40. Debuting Wednesday, “The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras,” has 40 contestants from the show’s history, including mainstays Johnny Bananas and Chris “CT” Tamburello. Episodes air on MTV and will also stream on Paramount+. Guess what? Emily is still in Paris! Part 1 of the Lily Collins- led romance, workplace comedy’s fourth season drops Thursday on Netflix. And rumor has it in the new season of “Emily in Paris,” the star also visits Rome.

Arshad Nadeem, who gave Pakistan its first Olympics medal after 32 years, is as spectacular as his 92.7 meter throw in the Javelin final. Nadeem's journey is celebrated not because of institutional support but despite the lack thereof. When he took up javelin, Nadeem reportedly did not have much money. According to his father, Muhammad Ashraf, people pooled money so that he can train. “People have no idea how Arshad got to this place today. How his fellow villagers and relatives used to donate money so that he could travel to other cities for his training and events in his early days,” his father Muhammad Ashraf revealed.

Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has launched a new alcohol-free perfume for dogs called ‘Fefé’ in honor of Domenico Dolce’s poodle, but not all vets and pet owners agree it’s safe or appropriate

Hamas's political leader in an attack blamed on Israel has prompted fears of a wider regional conflict and sidelined talks aimed at ending the nearly 10-month war in Gaza. Since Hamas's deadly October 7 attack on Israel sparked devastating retaliation in Gaza, Qatar has acted as an important interlocutor with the Palestinian militant group. The movement's slain political chief Ismail Haniyeh was based in the Gulf emirate.

India, President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly Dennis Francis told a global audience in Rome that the country has lifted millions of people out of poverty through digitalisation. Referring to the need to provide a basis to support rapid development, such as through digitalisation, Francis cited and lauded India's example and said: «Take for example the case of India… India has been able to lift 800 million people out of poverty over the last five or six years simply by the use of smartphones.» Francis was delivering a lecture at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations headquartered in Rome on «Accelerating progress towards Zero Hunger for the current and future generations.»

body shaming and freedom of speech to the fore, a Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of EUR 5,000 or $5,465 for making fun of her height in a social media post. It also awarded Giulia Cortese a suspended fine of EUR 1,200 for a jibe on Twitter, now known as X, reports Reuters. Giorgia Meloni compared to Benito Mussolini The controversy began in 2021 when Cortese published a mocked-up photo of Giorgia Meloni with a picture of the late fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the background. In the following tweet, the journalist wrote, «You don't scare me, Giorgia Meloni. After all, you're only 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall. I can't even see you.» The Italian prime minister launched legal action against the journalist after she clashed with her on social media.

Small-scale fisher organisations from India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Gambia have asked fisheries subsidies negotiations to be kept out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and said that the ongoing negotiations on curbing overcapacity and overfishing (OCOF) subsidies are “unfair and unbalanced”. They said that the exemptions for small-scale fishers across developing countries is being restricted by imposing irrational conditionalities. The World Forum of Fisher Peoples and World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers have raised concerns at the negotiations which seek disciplines on subsidies such as those for construction, acquisition and modernisation of vessels.

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Verona province, according to a media report, weeks after the country was shocked by the tragic death of a Sikh farm worker who bled to death. Finance police also seized assets worth 475,000 euros from the suspects, who own two agricultural sector companies with no employees on the books and are allegedly total tax evaders, ANSA news agency reported on Saturday. The two alleged gangmasters were arrested on Saturday and are under investigation for crimes, including enslavement and labour exploitation, the Italian news agency said. The issue of modern forms of slavery in Italy recently came to the fore of media attention following the case of 31-year-old Sikh farm labourer Satnam Singh, who bled to death after being abandoned by his employer after a strawberry wrapping machine severed his arm in Lazio, near Rome, last month.